Caster semenya and a level playing field

Caster Semenya: sport, categories and the creative role of ethics.

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The investigation of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was neither discreet nor respectful of her privacy. Caster's case has implications for the ethics of sports and debates ab...

Either/or: sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.

Policing the boundaries of sex: a critical examination of gender verification and the Caster Semenya controversy.

On August 19, 2009, Caster Semenya, South African track star, won a gold medal in the women's 800-meter event. According to media reports, on the same day, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ordered Semenya to undergo gender verification testing. This article critically assesses the main concepts and claims that undergird international sport organizations' policies re...

A Level Playing-Field: Perceptibility and Inflection in English Compounds

Abstract To explain why English compounds generally avoid internal inflectional suffixation (e.g. key-chain rather than keys-chain), linguists have often invoked the Level Ordering Hypothesis (Siegel 1979), i.e. that particular types of morphology, in this case inflectional suffixation, are derivationally ordered after compounding. However, a broad range of counterexamples and conceptual object...

Selecting tomorrow's doctors--not a level playing field.